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Armoring FreeBSD With more and more script kiddies being born, we need to learn a few basic rules of protecting ourselves. This guide outlines the basics to FreeBSD security, and works best with FreeBSD 4.x. Read More Booting FreeBSD with grub grub is a bootloader which is compliant to the multiboot standard. It understands filesystems (FFS, FAT16, FAT32, minixfs, ext2fs), is able to boot a multitude of OSes, is able to boot from the net (RARP, BOOTP, DHCP)... Read More Transparent HTTP caching with Squid and BSD/OS 4.2 In 2000, on the bsdi-users mailing list, a question was asked about how to do transparent HTTP caching/proxying using BSD/OS. At the time, I hinted at using the Adventure: A BSD lovers story and a look to the future I was closely associated to a service provider in western Pennsylvania and I began trying to sell him on the idea that FreeBSD was the solution to his problems. It was a hard sell, as he was very busy and couldn't see the benefit to replacing his servers with BSD-based systems. I finally convinced him to let me recycle a (seemingly useless) 486DX4-100 server Read More Help! I've Fallen With the February, '01 issue of the ``Help, I've Fallen'' column, we have several more of the frequently asked questions in BSD-land and our best answers. We begin the new century with a reprised question from the very first column in September, '98, touch upon some Linux and BSD comparisons, and discuss a safe way to experiment with any of your configuration files. Read More Dæmons Advocate Another year has passed, and I'm going to use that as an excuse to look back where we've come from and try to guess where we're going. This is the fifteenth article I have written in this series, over a period of 2½ years. During that time, the free software landscape has changed considerably. Read More
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